Improved portable farm-fence



panels, thus doubled, are set up in the form of a shanty, barracks, pen, or other desired structure, and sustained or held together as shown in Fig. 4 or in any other manner that the conveniences of the farmer may suggest.

If the panels shown in Fig. 2 are used, the same operation of disconnecting and inverting each alternate panel and slipping one within another may be resorted to in order to form closed or double frames, Fig. 3, as also is the case if the plans shown in Figs. 5 and 6 are adopted in the tirst erection of the fence.

It is obvious that the same principle of operation is involvedin all of the styles of fencing shown, and that the end desired to be attained-viz., an open summer fence which is capable of being converted into a closed Winter Water-proof structure-is secured from the use of either style.

My improvement is very essential, as it places Within the reach of the farmer who has not the means to erect both a stationary substantial fence around his farm and waterproof structures for the gathered produce and stock or animals thereof a fencing which Will answer all his purposes during the warm seasons of the year, and when no longer required for guarding his growing crops can be readily taken down and converted into pens, outbuildings, dac., for sheltering the stock and protecting the gathered produce, the struetures thus formed ett'ectually shedding the rain both at sides and top, owing to the oblique set of the rails of the panels or the diamond lap thereof.

Having thus described my portable and convertible fence, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The manner, substantially as herein described, of constructing the panels of an open farm-fence, whereby the panels can be doubled at will, so as to form closed frames with a rain-proof lap-surface, for the purposes herein set forth.

H. C, FOOTE.

lvVitncsses:

DAVID BEDFORD, C. T. FRAZER. 

